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...dual holiday honoring the birthdays of King and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In Selma, the city council voted over the protest of Mayor Joe Smitherman to approve a candlelight walk to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a bloody 1965 clash between black marchers and police. In Birmingham, near the Sixteeth Avenue Baptist Church, where a bomb killed four little girls in 1963, a 7-ft.-tall bronze likeness of King was scheduled to be unveiled Monday...
Bradley James Barnes, a Harvard chaplain, will officiate the Alabama ceremony on July 2. In the fall, Mr. Hill and Ms. Ellis will enter medical school at the University of Alabama, Birmingham...
This work is the most recent in a series of projects for Bond which have tackled a number of sensitive issues—including his previous work developing the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum and the crypt for Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta...
Some of his other projects include the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change...
...letter that would become famous. He was not attacking Southern mobs or Northern politicians. The targets of King’s letter were the liberal ministers and rabbis who had previously been some of his most powerful supporters. When King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had moved into Birmingham to stage a civil disobedience campaign, the liberal clergy objected to King’s tactics. At the time, the civil rights movement was focused on the courts. King’s direct action was considered radical, dangerous, and possibly harmful to the cause. The more conservative leaders...